Letter reveals what Yale alum saw at Brett Kavanaugh's frat house that 'shocked' him

The mystery of what New York resident Tad Low claims he saw inside Brett Kavanaugh’s Yale fraternity house back in the 80s has been solved.

“During the 1987-88 school year, I was an eyewitness to a shocking ceremony taking place inside the DKE fraternity house that involved a semi-circle of cheering frat brothers watching a local prostitute perform a public sex act,” Low said in a letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley obtained by the Washington Examiner.

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Speaking to the Daily News on Monday, Low declined to give details of the “shocking” incident but said the difficulty he encountered trying to report his tip to the FBI was frustrating.

A Yale alum who was a year behind Kavanaugh at the prestigious Ivy League, Low said he wasn’t sure if the Supreme Court nominee even attended the party in question, but he felt compelled to report the event.

He figured the FBI with its vast resources might be able to quickly determine whether Kavanaugh was present that night by checking the judge’s oft-discussed calendars and checking with a witness inside the party whose identity Low provided.

Low told The News he went out of his way to report the tip on Saturday but was placed on long holds with the FBI and never received a return call.

He said his frustration led him to also write letters to Grassley, who is the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Chris Coons.

Coons apparently forward his version of Low’s letter to Grassley, and Grassley responded with withering criticism in a reply also obtained by the Washington Examiner.

“The purpose of this allegation is plain: to smear Judge Kavanaugh’s name by associating him with the party’s hosts,” Grassley wrote. “This guilt-by-association tactic is the basest form of political attack and deserves unqualified condemnation.”

Grassley said his investigators have “serious work to do” and suggested they wouldn’t be spending any of their “valuable time” investigating Low’s tip.

“It deserves unqualified condemnation? How about we focus on unqualified FBI resources?” Low told The News in a phone interview Tuesday.

“I don’t understand why they set the one-week time period if they had no intention of following up on things,” Low said. “This is worth looking into. We know he likes a good party, and we know he keeps great records.”

Low, 52, told The News he reported the incident out of a sense of civic duty and was surprised by how frustrating the process was.

He said while he didn’t know Kavanaugh personally, he felt it was within the realm of possibility Kavanaugh attended the party he witnessed.

A member of DKE before receiving his undergraduate degree in 1987, Kavanaugh was still involved in campus life at the time, attending Yale Law. Low said the party in question was at the frat’s newly purchased, first standalone residence, which might have been an added draw.

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Speaking to The News on Monday, Low steadfastly refused to describe what he saw peeking through the window at the DKE house. He didn’t want to make it harder for investigators to corroborate the wild story with other witnesses, he said.

He would only say it was disturbing enough that he went the extra mile to proactively call the FBI and the invite the scrutiny – and possible penalties – of an FBI interview into his life.

He said he repeatedly waited on hold — at least 15 minutes at one point — and got transferred around. When he finally reached a “low-level” employee who took his information, the staffer asked no follow-up questions and ended the call without so much as a reference number, he said.

After hours passed with no return call, Low tried a different FBI office and was told agents weren’t working over the weekend, he said.

Low said he called the FBI again Monday and was still waiting for a reply on Tuesday.

“They at least acknowledged they had a record of my call and said it has been ‘submitted out’ accordingly. I don’t know, maybe they threw it in trash,” he told The News. “They won’t even send me an email confirming I submitted my claim. They said if I’d like to add additional information, I could wait on hold for another 30 minutes.”

Low said he understood his tip might be a red herring, but it might also lead to something relevant, in his opinion, and the “clock is ticking.”

“The phone thing was really embarrassing – all the waiting on hold, listening to the bad elevator music,” Low said Monday.

“If it’s true the White House and (Senate Judiciary) Committee are truly serious about learning all they can, why not at least set up a special Kavanaugh hotline or dedicate some agents? If it’s just one week, can we get some manpower?” he asked.

President Trump nominated Kavanaugh over the summer to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. The bid seemed like a lock until multiple women stepped forward to say Kavanaugh sexually assaulted them while intoxicated at parties in the 1980s.

Kavanaugh has disputed the claims and testified under oath last week that while it’s true he very much likes beer, he has never blacked out from drinking too much alcohol.

President Trump reopened the FBI investigation of Kavanaugh’s background on Friday, giving it the seven-day time limit.